On Jul 28 2006, 22:25, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 21:42, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > It may be that I'm mis-remembering, this _was_ thirty years ago or
> > so I was last messing with that machine. Wasn't there a line on
> > that bus to indicate one or the other byte, though?
>
> Yeah, BDAL00. From looking at a QBUS pinout, I don't see any other
> signals to indicate even/odd.
There is one, for writing. For reading bytes, the CPU just reads a
word and discards the upper byte. For writing, it asserts BWTBT and
only the lower byte is written.
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Does anyone here know what the startup of a Compaq XP1000 (Alpha-based
system for OpenVMS) is supposed to look like?
I have an XP1000 with PowerStorm 300 and U2W-SCSI that I just received. It
powers on, and all 8 diagnostic LED's light up. There are no beeps, and
there is no video. I've tried to connect a VT420 to the serial ports using
the cable for my PWS 433au, but have had no luck. I've tried reseting the
CPU board, RAM, Video, and SCSI.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Zane
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> and people get especially weirded out when you count on your fingers in
> binary (up to 1023). Just reaching the number 4 upsets them.
By extention of this method, I should be able to count to 2097151. My wife,
unfortunately for her, can count only to 1048575.
:-)
Ken
Hi,
We have 11 pulled and in working condition TEAC FD55 360 K Floppy Drives. Are you interested and what would you pay for them? We also have Mini Flexible Disc Drives #M4853, 10 in stock. If interested in those also name your price?
> I would
> like to find someone who could
> borrow or sale his drive or read these tapes for me.
Every drive I have been able to find has a bad roller. It is not very likely
that you will find a working drive.
Which version of the Microexplorer software do you have? There is at least
one version which has been recovered.
It makes much more sense to talk base-2 about computer things, since computers operate base-2.
Trying to force computer things to base-10 would be similar to walking around spouting base-7 numbers to
people and expecting them to make sense of it.
Although, base-2 counting of paces is useful. Once your "counter" rolls around to zero you've gone about
a mile (2^10=1024 paces)
Good day,
I would like to backup up some old Apple 1/4" qic tapes. I do have an "Apple
Tape Backup 40SC" drive
but the drive's rubber became soft. I already damaged 2 tapes so I would
like to find someone who could
borrow or sale his drive or read these tapes for me.
What's on them ? Software for TI Microexplorer Lispmachines !
Greetings,
Marc
P.S.:
I'm located in the south of Germany.
I just picked up 3 XP1000 boxes, then I found there were no CPU boards in them. I'm in Kansas City.
2 have disks, 1 has display card, they have PSU and CR-ROM drives
Large power sink on motherboard made me think that was the CPU. I thought memory was under PSU. Imagine my suprise
If anybody wants them they are yours for shipping.
Thanks
Mike
Today I was feeling nostalic for the old Alpha Micro I used to use, the first
computer I actually hacked into manually (much to the dismay of the system
administrator who then demanded to know how I did it). In particular I know
it was a 68K AlphaMicro, probably an AM-1200. Is anyone getting rid of one of
these, or knows someone who is?
I found an Alpha Micro emulator and it's even Mac friendly but it just
isn't the same as being in front of one of those amber terminals with an
AMOS prompt.
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